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Cue a frenzy of bad puns. Here is The Sun with the first of them (but a glowing article so they must be forgiven).

The Can Clan is looming. We got another nice little piece in yesterday’s Sun. And the weather looks set to be practically tropical so you have no excuse not to join us. It’s not every day that you get to be part of a world record.

Hot off the press is our newest ad for s1jobs. You can view the TV-friendly version here. Or a rather stupendous longer version with bike tricks galore on youtube here.

A big hats off to Phil and Guy, Gillian, Brian and the ever lovely Kate for an absolutely cracking advert. And obviously the biggest hats off of all to Mr MacAskill.

The track, by the way, is called Barriers and comes from rising Scottish stars, Aerogramme. For extra audio pleasure, enjoy it here. Listen and love loving your job.

I’m a bit fixated with the weather at the moment. Perhaps as a consequence of the fact that it’s now been raining for approx. 3 days solidly. Lovely. I’m feeling very sorry for all the tourists who poured their life savings into visiting Edinburgh for a sliver of pretty culture this Festival only to be confronted with sheets of relentless rain.

Anyway, they - and we - can cheer ourselves up with the forthcoming prospect of a World Record attempt. Check out this cracking little website courtesy of Blonde. Be sure to add your avatar to the party. And we’ve been getting some very nice pun-laden PR coverage.

So keep your fingers crossed for a moment of dryness at noon on 13 September. And we hope to see you there.

I love it when I’m doing something else altogether and come across a nice little bit of PR for us. This is the product of months of work from Sir Alan, the master and now sadly departed Dr Paul Stallard. (Only departed to Sheffield so it’s not as tragic as it might sound.) Worth checking out simply for Sir Alan’s use of a word I did not know existed: rectilinear. Must try and drop that into conversation with him, sometime.

To great fanfare, a new identity was launched this week for Dundee, one-time city of discovery. The fine product of lots of people’s labours actually, you can see some of the work they’ve been doing here. Sir Alan was mostly instrumental in this - if you believe his version of events - though I think he received a fair amount of support from beautiful Anne before she set off to discover South America, Gillian, currently discovering Glastonbury, Brian, currently discovering Mull and of course all the lovelies at Blonde who brought the website to life (of which, more here) and Stripe. I think I’ve laboured this discovery pun rather too much so yes, have a wee look and discover Dundee for yourself.

see me are launching their photo competition today. It’s already been covered in the Scotsman and the Herald and the above has been chosen as the Big Picture on the BBC News Online. And that’s without all of the regional press coverage that is bound to be forthcoming.

Hats off to Stripe, to Mandi and Kirsten for being so photogenic and to Fiona’s hand, without which none of it would have been possible…

And if you’re so inclined and would like to enter, (handsome looking) details (courtesy of Mike and Fletch) can be found here.

And we are. Triumph at the Roses last night for the IRN-BRU “If” ad. A best commercial award, a best copywriting and a grand prix. And an equally well-deserved award for an exceptionally fine Government DM piece from Sean and Caroline. Fantastic work.

An absolutely storming write-up of the new BRU ad from the Guardian. And a couple of very complimentary comments. HFizzy orange days.